Thomas Kinst, board president, said the board is looking to maintain the schools' level of excellence while dealing with explosive health care costs, a 2 percent cap on the local tax levy to support the budget and a generally depressed economy, the report said.

Daynon Blevins, president of the association, said that his members are "tired, frustrated and very angry," the report said. "It’s time to treat your employees with respect and as humans, not statistics," the report quoted him saying.